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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Hanuman<br />
| image = Hanuman (1998 film).jpg<br />
| caption = French theatrical release poster<br />
| director = [[Frédéric Fougea]]<br />
| producer = Nathalie Auffret<br />
| writer = Frédéric Fougea<br />[[Michel Fessler]]<br />
| starring = [[Robert Cavanah]]<br>[[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]]<br />
| music = [[Laurent Ferlet]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Bernard Lutic]]<br />
| editing = Yann Dedet<br />Frédérique Lebel<br />
| studio = [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]<br />
| distributor = [[Gaumont Buena Vista International]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1998|10|28|France|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 84 minutes<br />
| country = France<br />India<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Hanuman''''' is a 1998 French-Indian film directed by [[Frédéric Fougea]]. The film stars Scottish actor [[Robert Cavanah]] and Indian actress [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] in the lead roles. The film was dubbed in Danish as ''Hanuman og abernes tempel'' with [[Henrik Koefoed]], [[Vibeke Hastrup]], and [[Søren Sætter-Lassen]] providing the voices of Tom, Anja, and Ashok, respectively.<ref name="DK">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinemazone.dk/review.asp?id=529|title=Hanuman og abernes tempel - CinemaZone.dk - et filmmagasin i bredformat|website=www.cinemazone.dk}}</ref> The film was alternatively titled as ''The Monkey Who Knew Too Much''. It was the on-screen debut for [[Nithya Menen]] as a child artist.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b806ee210 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505102535/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b806ee210 | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 May 2019 | title=Hanuman (1998) | publisher=BFI | accessdate=4 September 2022 }}</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
{{cast listing|<br />
* [[Robert Cavanah]] as Tom<br />
* [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] as Anja<br />
**Nidhi Dharamaraj as Young Anja<br />
* Nathalie Auffret as Alice<br />
* Khalid Tyabji as The Hermit<br />
* [[Jaaved Jaaferi]] as Ashok<br />
* [[Yatin Karyekar]] as the Superintendent<br />
* Ramesh Pandit as Ravi<br />
* Jim Adhi Limas as Louis<br />
* [[Tom Alter]] as Tom's father<br />
* Sidney Kean as Roberto<br />
* Govind Rao as Anja's father<br />
* [[Nithya Menen|Nitiya Sukumaran]] as Moona<br />
* Robin Arthur Corner Jr. as Young Tom<br />
* Hans Kaushik as Young Sadhou<br />
}}<br />
The film also features [[bonnet macaque]]s named Hanu, Jeela and Long Tooth.<br />
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== Release ==<br />
Carla Meyer of ''[[San Francisco Chronicle|SF Gate]]'' praised the performances of Cavanah and the monkeys and wrote that "By the last third, "''Hanuman''" has become a pretty predictable good-versus- evil story. But the picture's great beauty, and the obvious care that it took to make it, override the triteness".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-this-week-2875654.php|title=FILM CLIPS / Also opening this week|first1=Bob|last1=Graham|first2=Carla|last2=Meyer|date=September 21, 2001|website=SFGate}}</ref> Dennis Harvey of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' similarly wrote that " Fougea’s deft orchestration of two trained and 50 wild monkeys — who make antic, appealing camera subjects — nicely suspends disbelief, while his brisk pacing makes the somewhat formulaic script go down easily".<ref>{{cite news|last=Harvey |first=Dennis |url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/hanuman-2-1200459466/ |title=Review: 'Hanuman' |work=Variety |date=18 October 1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304221928/http://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/hanuman-2-1200459466/ |archive-date= 4 March 2016 }}</ref> On the contrary, Jesper Vestergard of ''CinemaZone'' criticized the film and wrote that "The film's expression never manages to land a place where it can satisfy neither children nor adults, and the magical element of history with the monkey god never comes to its own".<ref name="DK" /><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
!Award<br />
!Category<br />
!Recipient(s) and nominee(s)<br />
! Work<br />
!Result<br />
|-<br />
| [[Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival|Cinequest Film Festival]] <br />
| Audience Favorite Choice Award - Honorable Mention<br />
| [[Frédéric Fougea]]<br />
| ''Hanuman''<br />
| {{won}}<br />
|}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links == <br />
* {{IMDb title|0165807}}<br />
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[[Category:1998 films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about monkeys]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Asia]]<br />
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:English-language French films]]<br />
[[Category:1998 English-language films]]<br />
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